CBS Boston: The NFL Lets The Steelers Do Whatever They Want

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This article from Boston points out, with examples, that there's a double-standard in the NFL when you consider the fact that the Steelers are allowed to do whatever the hell they want with little-to-no repercussions.  

I wonder how long before the national media and the NFL start to take notice that other people are finally starting to take notice and does something about it, but, if history has told me anything, the Steelers will always be allowed to do whatever they want and there will be a whole separate set of rules for them and for the rest of the league.

This example even gets their annoying fanbase involved because every Steelers fan I've ever known of has a sense of entitlement:

Quote:So when Vontaze Burfict baptized Antonio Brown with a throwback hit on an overthrown pass over the middle, as the Steelers were trying to drive for a game-winning field goal, the two volatile elements reached critical mass.

In the meantime, Steelers fans took to social media to decry a hit so violent and so cheap that they forgot about the Ryan Clark jerseys they were wearing or his identically malicious hit on Wes Welker in 2008.

Burfict was flagged for an unnecessary roughness personal foul, which put the Steelers into field-goal range with 18 seconds to play. This would have been a 50-plus yard attempt for rookie kicker Chris Boswell, so a gimpy Ben Roethlisberger would have had to run at least one more play, as the Steelers kicking game this season has been about as reliable as Ryan Mallet’s alarm clock.

Then it goes on to Joey Porter, which it's still mind-blowing to me that no flag was thrown and it gave the Steelers the easy win:

Quote:Enter Steelers assistant coach Joey Porter, who unquestionably puts the “ass” in assistant. Porter used this as an opportunity to jaw with the Bengals. This caused Bengals defender and human explosive Adam “Pac-Man” Jones to lose his mind and push Porter. Another flag against the Bengals resulted, and for the first time in his career, Joey Porter’s mouth both wrote a check and actually had the funds to cover it.

To summarize: A Steelers coach went onto the field and he illegally and demonstrably affected the course of a game. Roethlisberger didn’t have to take another snap because Joey Porter trash-talked the Steelers into chip-shot field-goal range.

First of all, this should have been the easiest offsetting unsportsmanlike conduct penalty in the history of the league. If having two guys flapping their arms in the end zone is a 15-yard flag, Joey Porter flapping his gums should probably count for 30 — 15 for each gum.

Then one that hasn't gotten much attention is the Steelers white-trash coach grabbing Reggie Nelson's hair and not being penalized:

Quote:Secondly, it should have been the second time in the same game that a member of the Steelers’ coaching staff was penalized for interacting with a player. Pittsburgh offensive line coach Mike Munchak got tangled up with Bengals safety Reggie Nelson, and 100 percent without question yanked a handful of Nelson’s long dreadlocks in an effort to shove him away.

Then it goes on to Porter illegally being on the field and screwing us out of glory, but it also notes that it's the second time a Steelers coach has stepped on the field in an attempt to (successfully, this time) alter the outcome of a game, with the first being Tomlin trying to trip Jacoby Jones:

Quote:But third of all, Porter’s antics — which according to a Forbes report directly violate Article 1, Section 8 of the NFL rulebook — marks the second time in three years that a Steelers coach has gone onto the field of play, and in doing so, has directly and illegally influenced a game.

Who can forget Mike Tomlin using the Baltimore Jumbotron as his own personal rearview mirror and stepping out from the sideline just enough to force Ravens kick returner Jacoby Jones to cut back inside, where he was tackled by his pursuers. If Tomlin had stayed out of the way, Jones probably scores. The smirking Tomlin’s obviously intentional antics went inexplicably un-flagged on the field, and Pro Football Reference still hasn’t given him an assisted tackle on that special teams play.

Then it goes on to say how the Patriots were punished so harshly because it was "“more probable than not” that an employee deflated footballs, yet here is hard, indisputable evidence that the Steelers cheated and nothing will happen to them, or definitely nothing too harsh.

I love it because someone with a voice that can be heard nationally is voicing what the rest of the able-minded world is thinking.